Royal Pain

Marcia let out a yawn as she walked down the hallway heading for the stairs.

"Morning, Marcia!"

"Hey-AHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Marcia steps in a pool of water and slips she falls on her back and then slides down a large water slide. Her panicked screaming turns into excited laughing as she goes down the slide. She lets out a loud whoop as she lands in a giant pool in the living room.

"Oh, that was awesome!" Marcia said

Seven laser puppies swim by as Marcia gets out of the pool and wrings her hair out. Star runs over wearing a green bathing suit.

"I know, right? Stairs are so boring," Star said

"Heh-heh. I hope my parents don't flip when they see this," Marcia said

"I'm flipping!" Mr. Diaz said flipping into the pool.

"Dad!" Marcia said surprised

"Relax, daughter. This is like the perfect getaway without actually getting away! Hahaha!" Mr. Diaz said, a dolphin appears under him and carries him away as it laughs.

"I love living here! If my parents found out I've been using magic for stuff like this," Star said

"About that. This was cool, but next time, maybe a little heads-up? Okay? Wet socks are a form of torture in some countries," Marcia said pointing down at her socks.

The doorbell rings catching the girl's attention.

"I'll get it!" Star said

Star smiles as she opens the front door.

"Oh, hey, Dad...Dad?!" Star yelled

"Hello-!"

Star slams the door on her father before he could walk in.

"Oh, no! I need to hide everything!" Star yelled

Marcia and her Dad look at each other than around them. A mermaid was sitting on the ledge of the pool as a submarine surfaces from beneath the pool.

Star quickly lifts up her wand and starts firing off magical blast cleaning up the mess. She then changes her clothes before reopening the door.

"What a pleasant surprise! What brings you here unexpectedly?" Star said nervously.

"Well, I was in the neighborhood and...Agh. Who am I kidding? Your mother, has banished me from the castle," King Butterfly said

"What did you do?" Star asked with a not surprised tone.

"Nothing! I just left a garment or two laying around," King Butterfly said

King Butterfly enters the house with his manservant follows dragging in his heavy luggage.

"I thought perhaps, I could stay here for a day while this blows over," King Butterfly said

Mr. Diaz appears and hugs King Butterfly from behind.

"Of course you can stay here. You are familiar. You can watch the kids while me and the wifey actually get away. ¡Hasta mañana!" Mr. Diaz said before running out the house.

"I wonder if he knows he's not wearing pants?" Marcia said

"Ah, good show!" King Butterfly said

A laser puppy appears in King Butterfly's beard.

A laser puppy runs up to King Butterfly barking and he picks it up.

"Huh? Oh, hello-!"

The laser puppy lets out another bark before it shoots King Butterfly's eyes with its lasers.

King Butterfly lets out a scream before his beard burst into flames.

"Star, if you mother was here and knew you were using your wand inappropriately, she would send you straight to St. Olga's, but I'm not your mother! I rather enjoy destructive magical puppies," King Butterfly said

"This visit is actually gonna be fun then!" Star said

"Father-Daughter Day!" Star and King Butterfly said hugging each other.

Star grabs her father by his mustache and drags him around the house, "Tour time!"

King Butterfly let out a hearty laugh as he's dragged by his daughter.

"Okay! You guys have fun bonding! Don't blow anything up! I'm gonna go change my socks," Marcia takes a few steps as her wet socks squish, "Ugh, it's like I'm walking in pudding."

Marcia made her way upstairs followed by the laser puppies. She went into her room and sat on her bed taking off her wet socks. As she held up one of the socks a laser puppy jumps up and grabs it with its mouth.

"Awwww….who wants the wet sock! You want the wet sock!" Marcia said waving the sock around as the laser puppies chased after it. Marcia giggled at the puppies until she heard a loud noise come from down the hallway.

"What are they doing in there?" Marcia questioned.

She threw her wet socks to the puppies and puts on a fresh pair before walking out into the hallway. Marcia approaches the bathroom door but before she could open the door Star and King Butterfly run out.

"Hey, Marcia!" Star said

"Love the bathroom!" King Butterfly said

"Thanks. I-"

A rush of water comes out of the bathroom soaking Marcia's feet.

Marcia lets out a wail lifting up her wet feet. She then looks into the bathroom to see the toilet clogged with various things causing her to let out a second wail. She rolls up her sleeves and grabs a plunger ready to get to work. She should have guessed this would have happened since Star had done the exact same thing the first day she arrived. Later that night Marcia could hear loud noises coming from Star's bedroom. She cringed as a loud noise shook her from her bed.

"Way to loud," Marcia said picking herself off her floor.

Marcia was about to go to Star's room but then she remembered that she was having quality time with her dad and didn't want to ruin it.

Marcia let out a sigh and reached under her bed and pulled out a white noise machine and a pair of headphones. She turned the machine on and put the volume all the way up and put on the headphones. She let out a happy sigh as she laid back down in bed the noise from before drowned out.

The next morning Marcia had made pancakes for breakfast and was setting up the table as a worse for wear Star came down the stairs and plopped down heavily in a seat at the table. Marcia sat a plate of pancakes in front of Star and the blonde haired girl just grabbed a bottle of maple syrup and emptied it on her pancakes.

"Good morning, Star," Marcia said

"Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba…" Star said incoherently.

"It was ridiculously loud last night," Marcia said

"It wasn't me, Oskar. It was my dad. He's insane! He just thinks he can come down to Earth and do whatever he wants! He is so inconsiderate!" Star ranted out.

"Huh. I can weirdly relate," Marcia said

"What do you mean?" Star asked

"Doesn't that sound familiar?" Marcia said

"Yeah...He does this to my mom!" Star said

Marcia let out a sigh before grabbing her plate of food, "Never mind."

"Well, I'm just glad he's leaving today. I don't know how much more of this I can take," Star said

Star and Marcia hear a loud scream and they both let out squeal as King Butterfly whacks into the window swinging from Christmas lights.

"Hello, Star," King Butterfly said crawling inside through the window.

"Dad, what are you doing?" Star asked

"I'm hanging lights for the party," King Butterfly said

"What party?" Star asked

"Oh, jeez! I forgot to tell you. I'm having such a great time here, I've decided to stay! Isn't that great?" King Butterfly said hugging Star.

"Greeeeeat," Star said

"Oh, and in celebration of moving here, I've invited some friends to check out my new digs. Marcia my dear I'm gonna need you to whip up some snack for the party, Star says you're quite the cook," King Butterfly said

"How many people are gonna be at this party?" Marcia asked

"Oh just a few close friends," King Butterfly said

The doorbell rings.

"They're here!" King Butterfly said

Marcia peeks out the window, "Oh that's more than a few."

The house was full of various creatures from other dimensions. Marcia was kind of ticked that there were so many people in the house but her lover for cooking outweighed her annoyance.

Marcia was walking around carrying a tray of food until she saw two small bunny creatures play with water balloons.

"Uh, hey, guys. Are those water balloo-"

The water balloons splash near Marcia's feet and she yelped jumping back trying to keep the tray of food steady while trying to keep her socks dry.

A fish-like creature with an elephant trunk walks by with a punch bowl, spilling it everywhere.

"Punch. Punch. Punch."

"No, no, no, no, no. Whoa!" Marcia said avoiding the guy.

Marcia freezes as she feels her feet get wet and lets out a groan as she looks down. She spots her feet in a creature that looks like it's a living water balloon.

"Your feet are so soft," The water creature said

"Aaaah! No!" Marcia said stepping out of the creature. She lets out a grunt before thrusting the plate of food she was holding in a random creatures hands.

Marcia paces around in a puddle of water annoyed by her once again wet socks.

"I don't ask for much. Just a pair of dry socks, that's all. It's like I'm mushing bananas between my toes," Marcia said

"Marcia, I am so sorry that every time I tried to have some fun, I ended up soaking your socks," Star said walking over to Marcia.

"Look, I love all the fun things you want to do. Just a little heads-up would be nice. There's really nothing worse than wet socks," Marcia said

"Oh. Yeah, Oh, yeah! Nothing worse than wet socks!" Star said getting on a pink cloud.

"I'm still hungry, but there's no more food. I guess I'll just have to eat the whole planet!" Helios said

"Wait what!?" Marcia yelled

"It's time to purge this party!" Star said riding on the cloud.

Star uses her magic to turn the house into a giant water slide again, flooding the living room with water and soaking everyone's socks.

Everyone groans as they stand in the water. One by one, the party guests all leave through dimensional portals.

"Because I'm ridiculously apathetic to the suffering of others, I'm leaving too," King Pony Head said

"Gentlemen, gentlemen!" King Butterfly looks around the house to see it trashed, "Wow...I really made a mess of things."

King Butterfly picks up Helios, who has been reduced to a small golf ball-sized sphere.

"There's no way I'm poopin' out on this party," Tiny Helios said

Star and Marcia were on the couch as Marcia wrung out her wet socks.

"Um, sweetheart, I perhaps got a little carried away. And I may have been a little inconsiderate. I guess that's why your mother threw me out in the first place. I'm sorry, you guys," King Butterfly said

"And you'll patch things up with Mom?" Star asked

"Definitely," King Butterfly said

"Hugs!" Star and King Butterfly said hugging.

"What are you gonna do with Helios?" Marcia asked King Butterfly.

"Ooh, after party! Where we gonna go?" Helios asked

"I have no idea, but I'll give you a ride!" King Butterfly said pulling out his ram's-head club, "Ha-ha! Tally-ho!" King Butterfly strikes Helios like a golf ball, and he goes flying through a dimensional portal, "Hole in one! Hahaha! I'll send my top serfs here to make everything better than new. Farewell."

King Butterfly opens a dimensional portal to Mewni and jumps through it.

"Bye, Dad!" Star said

"Bye, Sir!" Marcia called out.

"Whew. From now on, I'll always give you a heads-up," Star said

"Thanks. But a surprise is good every once in awhile. Wouldn't you agree?" Marcia said smiling. She shoves Star in water before jumping in after her.

The two resurface on the backs of dolphins laughing.

END